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Guest Blogger Scott Sklar, reposted from REW

Over the last 36 months, more than 100 new U.S. renewable energy and energy efficiency manufacturing plants have opened in the United States.

Guest Blogger: Rhone Resch, President & CEO of Solar Energy Industries Association

Originally posted on The White House Council on Environmental Quality Blog

Guest Blogger,  Stephen Lacey on Jun 19, 2011

New York may soon decommission the four-decade-old Indian Point nuclear plant, a deteriorating 2-GW power station that supplies 25% of New York City’s electricity.

Some experts claim that closing the plant could de-stabilize supply, thus requiring a time-consuming build-out of centralized power plants and new transmission that will drive up rates.  The reality, however, is quite different.

Guest Blogger,  Stephen Lacey on Jun 14, 201

Reposted from ThinkProgress.

Green Jobs Are Real: German and American Solar Industry Both Employ More People Than U.S. Steel Production

Guest Blogger,  Stephen Lacey on Jun 14, 2011

Reposted from ThinkProgress.

People want to know: Are green jobs real? The answer is resoundingly “yes.”

By Andrea Luecke - May 27, 2011

Last month at the fourth annual Solar America Cities conference in Philadelphia, Jason Coughlin, one of NREL’s top solar financial minds, moderated a panel on financing solar projects. After the panelists finished up, he randomly cracked a few wry jokes about Donald Rumsfeld and asked, “Do we - should we - support the solar market we have today or do we - should we - try and create a better one by starting over?”

By Andrea Luecke - May 26, 2011

Adopting solar energy – getting to a point where it's the fastest new energy source coming online and where it makes up far more than 1% of our overall energy mix – requires some getting used to. All habits (good or bad) do. Even someone adverse to the smell of cigarettes, for example, unless they are asthmatic, will, over time, come to consider the smell commonplace. In marketing psychology, this phenomenon is known as the Rule of Repetition.